Comments on: Four Ion Netbooks Do Battle — Which One Wins? http://gigaom.com/mobile/four-ion-netbooks-do-battle-which-one-wins/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luscious http://gigaom.com/mobile/four-ion-netbooks-do-battle-which-one-wins/#comment-430684 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:28:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=53066#comment-430684 No surprise there. I won’t spoil it either, but ION does allow that free mini-PCIe slot to accomodate 3G/4G.

With all the talk of hardware video accelerators to supplement the Intel integrated graphics, folks sometimes forget that you need a high-res screen to make it really worthwhile. 1024×600 puts a hard limit on what you can do, but 1280×800 or 1466×768 is perfect for 720p playback.

I’m also partial to the smaller/lighter 10″ netbooks at this time. I believe anything bigger than 10″ is pushing the line with more capable 12″ and 13″ notebooks. After all, if it’s just a bigger display you need, you can pick up a 14″ Hp dv4 notebook for under $600 that’s far more capable too.

I’m hoping to go with a HP or Toshiba netbook for 2010. A Pinetrail unit with the Broadcom hardware video accelerator, 10″ 1366×768 display, Win 7 and 8-hour battery looks pretty good to me.

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